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Topic: Printing from DOS to PDF
Conf: (P-PDF) Engineering, Msg: 153029
From: javenom
Date: 8/4/2006 11:18 AM

Hi all,

I need to convert OrCAD schematics to PDF; however the version of OrCAD used to create the schematics is v1.25 (circa 1986) which is DOS based. There is a command to make a hardcopy (i.e. print) but the only options are: Print to PRN, or print to LPT1. Now I've tried setting it up so that I can redirect any printing to LPT1 to any printer of my choice in windows, however when redirecting to the PDF 'printer' (or any printer for that matter) the output is junk. This is probably due to the fact that OrCAD is using print commands intended for the DOS printer driver installed, which is an Epson MX, not printing out the PostScript data needed for the PDF 'printer'. Does anyone know how it might be possible to convert these files to PDFs? Note: Windows-based versions of OrCAD cannot read these files.